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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill Carnegie Hall and Favorite Nursery Rhymes fromA John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back to school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in